Combination dress and apron



Oct. 31, 1933. p 13 s 1,932,940

COMBINATION DRESS AND APRON Filed 001:. 27, 1932 INVEN TOR.

Diamond D. Sipe TTORNEYS.

Patented a. e1, 1933 g 1,932,940

U NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,932,940 COMBINATION DRESS AND APRON 7 Diamond Donner Sipe, New York, N. Y. Application October 27, 1932. Serial Dim-639,833 V l 2 Claims. (01. 2-74) This invention relates to ladies dresses and the appearance of being a part of the dressvand particularly to house dresses of the type usually .will fit neatly at this point to avoid the ap worn with aprons. pearance of an apron. s V

The principal purpose of. the invention is to In the accompanying drawing I have shown provide a dress and apron combination in which for purposes of. illustration one embodiment there is no appearance of an apron so that the which my invention may assume in practice. wearer does not need to remove and put on the In the drawing: apron at frequent intervals while intertaining Fig. 1 is a view of a house dress and apron or when she is required to go from her work to combination embodyingymy invention;

10 receive a caller. Fig. 2 is avertical sectional view on line 2 -2 It has been observed that with ordinary house of Fig. 1; dresses and aprons, the housewife does not want Fig. 3 is a view with the collar broken away to appear wearing an apron before strangers showing the apron being detached from the or before people whom she may be entertaindress;

1! ing even though she may be required to go to Fig. 4 is a partial front view showing the the kitchen at frequent intervals. It is. theredress and fastener section attached thereto with fore, necessary for her to spend a large amount the ap Completely d e of time in removing and putting on the apron The dress may be of any well-known design each time she is required to go from one room and the one illustrated has a body fitting p 20"to another, tion 7, arms portions 8, and a collar 9. Prefer- Prior to my invention it has been extremely ably the collar has a wide overhanging extension difficult to obtain a combination of a dress and 10 as is common in dresses of this type, and apron in which it will not be observed that an which serves a useful purpose in the combine.- capron is being used. The result accomplished tion as will hereinafter appear. The apron 11 25 by my invention is a complete blending of the is preferably of the full length type shown in apron into the dress so that it is practically im Fig. 1 but difiers from known designs in having possible to determine that the wearer is using the sides curved outwardly as shown at 12 at an apron. For this purpose it is preferable that the bust line for giving neatness at this point ..,the apron be made of the same material as and avoiding the outward bulging of the apron 30 the dress or at least of harmonious color. edge as in ordinary constructions.

Although the advantages of some of the fea- F01 a a h g the ap the dress, use is tures of my invention may be secured by the made of a slide operated fastener which has use of buttons or other usual fastening means, tWO strin s 13, 14 w interlocking elements for joining the upper edge of the apron to the 15 on the edges thereof. These sections of the 35 dress it i preferabIe to employ a continuous fastener are provided with a suitable separable fastening means for the reason that when the end connection preferably of a well-known type wearer walks or bends her body, the apron will on the market, having a metal pin member 16 wrinkle at places and project outwardly from the on the stringer carried by t dress and a! metal .dress thereby showing plainly that an apron is socket member 1'7 on the stringer carried by the 4! being Worn, whereas with a continuous fastener apron. It is desirable that the arrangement of i the material of the apron in a sense flows the parts of the separable end connection be as with the dress and it is practically impossible specified in order that the slider 19 may, when to detect that an apron is being worn. It has the apron is detached, be taken off with the been found that a well-known type of slide operapron instead o be left 011 the dress Where 45 ate-d fastener having a separable end connection it would be objectionable. In operation the so that the sections can be completely separated, Slider is moved to the right hand position as will serve my purpose better than any other viewed in Fig. 3 and the slider is slipped over known fastening means. the metal pin member 16 until the parts are Further features of my invention are the comengaged. Then the slider may be quickly moved 50 'plete concealment of the fastener whether or to the other end of the fastener and the attachnot the apron is in use and the ability quickly ment is complete. In taking the apron off all to attach and detach the apron. that is necessary is to move the slider toward A still further important feature is the outthe separable end connection and continue movward curves of the sides of the apron at the ing it until the socket 18 is slipped away from 55 bust line so that the apron will always have the pin 16.

As shown in Fig. 2, the stringer 13 of the fastener is sewed to the material of the dress and the thin finishing strip 20 is preferably applied so that the material of the fabric stringer will be neatly covered. It will be observed that the fastener sections are located behind the collar extension 10 so that they will be completely concealed thereby when the apron is in use, and the section 13 will be concealed when the apron is not being worn.

As a result of my invention it will be observed that an improved dress and apron combination has been devised in which it is practically impossible to detect the presence of an apron when the apron is being worn (see Fig. 1). It is, therefore, unnecessary for the housewife to remove and replace her apron at frequent intervals as above pointed out. The use of a slide fastener has the special advantages of extreme flexibility and continuous attachment, thereby making the apron hug tightly to the dress at all times. It, of course, has the further advantage of ease and quickness of attachment and detachment.

1 While I have in this application specifically described one embodiment which my invention may assume in practice, it will be understood that this embodiment is merely for the purpose of illustration and description and that various other forms may be devised within the scope of 'iny invention as defined in the appended claims.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A dress of the class described including a body fitting portion and a collar, a full length apron, a slide operated fastening means com prising cooperating sections, one attached to the dress under a portion of and completely covered by said collar and the other attached to and extending across the upper edge of said apron, and separable end connecting means on said sections whereby said apron may be quickly attached or detached from said dress, the whole of said fastening means and the upper edge of said apron being concealed by said collar.

2. A dress of the class described including a body fitting portion and a collar, an apron, and slide fastening means for quickly attaching and detaching said apron, said fastening means comprising a pair of fabric stringers which have interlocking fastener elements and a separable end connection thereon, one of said fabric stringers extending across the front of said dress under a portion of said collar and completely concealed thereby, and the other of said stringers being attached to and extending across the upper edge of said apron, and a finishing strip attached to the dress and covering the edge of said first mentioned stringer, the whole of said fastening means and the upper edge of said apron being concealed by said collar.

DIAMOND DONNER SIPE. 

